MoveOn is outraged. They're steaming that federal officials have the unmitigated gall to point out that city officials should have used their own buses to get people out when they could, or that 2/3rds of the police force walked off the job leaving the city in chaos (earning a free trip to Vegas), or that Gov. Blanco sat on a Presidential request to evacuate and then waited 24 hours to approve the federal response. FEMA has some improvement to do, yes. But the local officials utterly failed their people. Mayor Nagin could have used the buses to get people out, he could have ordered the evacuation 36 hours earlier when the emergency was declared AS HE SHOULD HAVE. FEMA can be faulted for not having the best response to the crisis, but the locals made the crisis happen. And MoveOn is pissed that people dare point out who is REALLY to blame here. It hurts their talking points.…
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I started a blog - they are changing all the facts and distorting the truth everywhere, citing comment from FAUX NEWS CHANNEL. As i experienced, they were modifying all the information on wikipedia.org about Governor Blanco, political effect of Hurricane Katrina, mayor Nagin, and other entry about the Hurricane, kepting citing Republicans news station like Faux news, newsMax.com, washingtontimes.com. if you guys have time, hope you can help.